NVIDIA Head of Sustainability: how to accelerate America’s nuclear energy renaissance
Source: Fortune ·
For most of the last few decades, electricity demand in the United States has been relatively flat. That era is ending.
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For most of the last few decades, electricity demand in the United States has been relatively flat. Our energy system, infrastructure, and in many ways, our policies were built around the assumption it would not grow dramatically. That era is ending. AI is one visible driver of new electricity demand, but it is far from the only one. We are electrifying more of the economy. Manufacturing is returning to the United States. Robots and physical AI are moving quickly from research labs into the real world. We are simply going to need far more electricity than we have today. And that is why we need to re-evaluate nuclear energy. At NVIDIA, we see both sides of this transition. The AI and accelerated computing we develop with our broad ecosystem of partners can also help energy developers design, simulate and operate infrastructure. This perspective that shapes our belief that the nuclear debate must move beyond whether to build—and focus on how technology can help the industry build…